September 2020

We continued our homeschooling mostly as planned. My two big failures were not managing to include science and social science as thoroughly as I had planned. My original plan was to cover "Indigenous History of the US for Young People" for social studies, and Gravity and Rocketry for science. Since our reading with both kids focused on Jim Craw during the Great Depression, I decided to add a civil rights movement information in the form of a book and a film. The kids are reading independently "Twelve Days in May" and together we watched Freedom Song. Completely unrelated, we also watched Old Yeller, with the intention to read the book in November when we discuss the Western Expansion and the attitude of the settlers towards the Natives. Regarding science, we did very little, super little, not worth mentioning. The kids did their Tinker Crate projects, one was showcasing chaos, and the other was a. ballista and they explored the relationship of angle vs distance travelled. We briefly talked about gravity, but we will revisit at another month. For September, I am going to focus on Chemistry, since it is easy to relate to. I am going to be using the Mel Chemistry science sets, KnowIt-All Chemistry and Chemistry: a molecular approach both by N.Tro.

September 2020 Homeschool Update:

5th Grade:

Math: PreAlgebra Ch 2 (Rules of Arithmetic), 3 (Number Theory); Geometry - Ch 2 (Angles and Lines)

English: IEW - continued with writing original stories inspired by pictures and summarizing  multiple references;  EIW- continued with the lessons in its sequence, currently at Lesson 14; Novel - Stella by Starlight

Portuguese: Simple Past Tense, Simple Present Tense, Lessons with private teacher using Brasileirinho, reading Pipi

Music: private lessons for cello and piano, and youth orchestra

7th Grade:

Math: Geometry-areas in circle,  Counting & Probability - Ch 8 and review of everything to date

English: IEW 6, 7 ; Novel - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (because the dialect was not easy to understand we used the reading by Morgan Myers on youtube, found here). We will also watch the 1978 movie on youtube. 

Portuguese: Present Subjunctive, Lessons with. Private Teacher using Falar, Ler, Escrever

Music: private lessons for piano and violin

Read Aloud: None 

Social Studies: Me: Central Park Five - book, movie; Together: Twelve Days in May (book), Freedom Song (movie), RBG (movie, watched it twice on CNN and Hulu)

Science: None

Movie related to a book: Old Yeller

Exercise: Bike, Run, I hope to go to a Corn Maze